"no", "0", etc. to true/false.

  * options can now be spelled "foo-bar" or "foo_bar" (handled in
    'parse_config_files()', just after we parse a file)
  * added a "[global]" section so there's a place to set global
    options like verbose/quiet and dry-run
  * respect the "negative alias" dictionary so (eg.) "quiet=1" is
    the same as "verbose=0" (this had to be done twice: once in
    'parse_config_file()' for global options, and once in
    '_set_command_options()' for per-command options)
  * the other half of handling boolean options correctly: allow
    commands to list their boolean options in a 'boolean_options'
    class attribute, and use it to translate strings (like "yes", "1",
    "no", "0", etc) to true or false

easier extensibility).

Standardize use of whitespace on function calls.

as well as scheme, and don't convert all installation paths (that's now
done by the "install" command for us).

'convert_paths()' method to convert them all to the local syntax (backslash
or colon or whatever) at the appropriate time.

Added SCHEME_KEYS to get rid of one hard-coded list of attributes (in
'select_scheme()').

Default 'install_path_file' to true, and never set it false (it's just
there in case some outsider somewhere wants to disable installation of the
.pth file for whatever reason).

Toned down the warning emitted when 'install_path_file' is false, since we
no longer know why it might be false.

Added 'warn_dir' flag to suppress warning when installing to a directory
not in sys.path (again, we never set this false -- it's there for outsiders
to use, specifically the "bdist_*" commands).

Pulled the loop of 'change_root()' calls out to new method 'change_roots()'.

Comment updates/deletions/additions.

up when the pathname starts with '/', which is needed when converting
installation directories in the "install" command.

resource files.  The gist of the patch is to treat ".rc" and ".mc"
files as source files; ".mc" files are compiled to ".rc" and then
".res", and ".rc" files are compiled to ".res".  Wish I knew what
all these things stood for...

on other systems, so that data, headers, scripts are included in
the installer.

  in a string (gives you something to do with the dictionary returned
  by 'parse_makefile()').
Pulled the regexes in 'parse_makefile()' out -- they're now globals,
  as 'expand_makefile_vars()' needs (two of) them.
Cosmetic tweaks to 'parse_makefile()'.

  easier for people porting Makefile.pre.in-based extensions to Distutils.
Also loosened argument-checking in Extension constructor to make life
  easier for 'read_setup_file()'.

are completely skipped, rather than being treated as blank lines
(and then subject to the 'skip_blanks' flag).  This allows us
to process old-style Setup files, which rely on
  hello \\
  # boo!
  there
coming out as "hello there".

Fixed precendence bug that meant setting skip_blanks to false didn't work
under some circumstances.

Factored the guts of 'warn()' out to 'gen_error()', and added the
'error()' method (trivial thanks to the refactoring).

Dropped the 'collapse_ws' option and replaced it with 'collapse_join' --
it's *much* faster (no 're.sub()') and this is the reason I really added
'collapse_ws', ie. to remove leading whitespace from a line being joined
to the previous line.

(eg. "bdist_dumb", to generate both ZIP and tar archives in the same
run), tell all but the last run to keep temp files -- this just gets
rid of the need to pseudo-install the same files multiple times.

Run "install" the right way, by calling 'run_command()'.

real implementation in Distribution.

the command's sub-commands as well (off by default).  This is essential if
we want to be be able to run (eg.) "install" twice in one run, as happens
when generating multiple built distributions in one run.

families" -- eg. install and its brood, build and its brood, and so forth.
Specifically: added the 'sub_commands' class attribute (empty list, sub-
classes must override it) and a comment describing it, and the
'get_sub_commands()' method.

meant removing 'get_sub_commands()', and moving the 'sub_commands' class
attribute to the end and restructuring it to conform to the new regime.

with the recent change in 'get_platform()', we now have directory names
like "build/lib-1.5-linux-i586".  Idea and original patch by
Rene Liebscher.

the sometimes inappropriate warning about where we're installing data files.

  of globals from sysconfig.
Added 'prefix' and 'exec_prefix' to the list of variables that can be
  expanded in installation directories (preserving the stupid old names
  of 'sys_prefix' and 'sys_exec_prefix, though).

of globals from sysconfig.

POSIX platforms, ie. get a little more detail than 'sys.platform' gives.

all that work when someone asks for a "configuration variable" from the
Makefile.  Details:
  - added 'get_config_vars()': responsible for calling one of the
    '_init_*()' functions to figure things out for this platform,
    and to provide an interface to the resulting dictionary
  - added 'get_config_var()' as a simple interface to the dictionary
    loaded by 'get_config_vars()'
  - changed the '_init_*()' functions so they load the global dictionary
    '_config_vars', rather than spewing their findings all over
    the module namespace
  - don't delete the '_init_*()' functions when done importing
  - adjusted 'customize_compiler()' to the new regime

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